“It’s Always ‘Go See Victor’ And Never ‘Go See How Victor is Doing!’” Nation’s Most Famous Runner Decries Neglect

By Wena Crook 

Bemoaning how Sir Wicknell Chivayo's now-famous instruction to beneficiaries to "Go See Victor!" had made him one of the most recognisable names in Zimbabwe while reducing him to little more than a glorified dispenser of car keys, Victor said he was tired of nobody asking how he was doing.

“Do you people even know what my totem is? What my surname is? Just once, it would be nice to hear ‘how have you been lately?’” he bemoaned as he hurriedly dug through drawers for three sets of Aqua keys for some Rhumba artists that recently performed at a rally in Kitsiyatota.

“Last time, one of the national team players, the one from the other blue team, was here to pick up his keys. I tried to tell him how I had scored a hat-trick at my church’s Family Sunday Play-Off, and he wasn’t even trying to hear me,” Victor lamented. 

He added: “The player said ‘Sorry, Vincent …Sir told me to just get the keys; I’ve got places to be.’ Vincent! Me? Unohwa seunotsva.”

At press time, Victor was flipping through the photo folder, showing our team of reporters pictures of the last time he was back at his rural home, before a phone call from his boss telling him that a Magician he had seen doing tricks at ZITF was on his way to pick up a car.